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Occasionally I come across a blog post from another source that is so well done that it must be shared. This week’s piece on the blog Strong Towns is such an example. Charles Marohn does a great job not just in skewering a typically lazy report by ASCE, but also tying it back to our [...]
A recurring theme of this blog is that we miss so many opportunities to better utilize excess pavement space that so many of our cities and towns have.
In some cases, that simply means we should reduce or remove travel lanes in favor of more on-street parking, wider sidewalks or better provisions for street trees. [...]
We’re obsessed with big: big houses, big churches, big cars, big stores, big food portions. It’s in our nature I suppose to be impressed with size.
When planning for our communities, though, it’s often best to think small. Not small as in small goals or dreams; but small as in the kinds of spaces that [...]
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Kevin Klinkenberg reviews Kansas City street design and the importance of getting the details right. By comparing and contrasting two sections of Westport Road, he looks at how each of the street designs work, the details of each and then show why one is so much better than the other.
In his seminal book “Great Streets”, Allan Jacobs wrote “given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.”
I couldn’t agree more.
This is not simply an exercise in greenwashing or tree-hugging. In fact, when planning for cities one of the more damaging paths to [...]
